Artificial Intelligence and the Journal of Allied Health

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly has been integrated into medical publishing. As expressed in a recent publication, serious concerns persist regarding ethical implications, authorship attribution, and content reliability. Clearly, AI has a significant role to play in the realm of publications in periodicals, including the Journal of Allied Health (JAH). Some members of the JAH editorial board recently considered the following kinds of questions: when a paper is submitted, is it worthwhile to determine if the author(s) used AI in any way when preparing it? If so, how relevant is it to identify (a) which portions of the manuscript are involved, and (b) are proper acknowledgements being included in the list of references? Similarly, should these concerns also be applied to peer reviewers so that it also becomes apparent which portions of their respective analyses represent genuine personal contributions and which have been acquired from AI?